As I’m sure some of you know Google announced a new Chromecast app to act as the central hub for all things related to Chromecast. In the demo they showed someone wanted to watch The X-Files and it showed all the places he could stream the content.
Ideally I would love to have Plex integrated in this same manner. Not sure if it’s possible, because some partnership with Google is needed? If it can be done, I think this would be amazing.
I’ve been searching the forums hoping someone else had the same idea. I already checked the new Chromecast app and it recognizes Plex as media, but doesn’t suggest watching anything from it.
I also am curious if Plex can take advantage of FastPlay. I think this however, might require a change to how transcoding/streaming works.
@majora2007 said:
I think this however, might require a change to how transcoding/streaming works.
Sounds good to me - If Plex can support fastplay, have it look at tv series that I’ve watched in the past few days or last few times I’ve launched the app, and then start transcoding/preparing the next one in that line - provided that it won’t damage another already-connected plex viewer’s experience. Plexers’ servers probably aren’t as powerful as Netflix’s 
Maybe do that for music, too. I can’t see a need for it for movies, though. Maybe if a user visit’s a movie’s page in the plex app, and starts watching a trailer or other extra, plex could also start transcoding the main movie’s first few minutes in the background? Not sure!
Bump. Would love to open the new Chromecast App and see Movies, Tv Shows, etc. from Plex like you do for Youtube, Netflix, etc.
This would be a nice feature, I hate the initial buffering time. I even have a fast enough connection and yet still am getting this with the chromecast 2
